Lawyers Allegedly Behaving Badly

[OldSolduer]

Okay, not a lawyer, but a potential lawyer.

Convicted murderer taking law courses at McGill breached parole conditions multiple times before attending school

The Parole Board of Canada knew Jeffrey George Ewert had plans to attend a university.

montrealgazette.com

And other potential lawyers (future defense lawyers?) want him to stay.

McGill law students petition for convicted murderer to return to studies - Montreal | Globalnews.ca

Some McGill law students are calling on the university to allow a convicted murderer on day parole to return to his studies amid a growing campus controversy.

globalnews.ca

Potential lawyers then need to take turns living with him

 

[dapaterson]

A quarter century ago, but how can you not love a scholar of international law and their tragic demise?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/scholar-s-bizarre-death-linked-to-drugs-1.297482

 

[Halifax Tar]

A quarter century ago, but how can you not love a scholar of international law and their tragic demise?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/scholar-s-bizarre-death-linked-to-drugs-1.297482

Bribery, or threats forcing him into drug mule ?

 

[dapaterson]

Arkansas: The state official responsible for the bar exam allegedly modified results, raising some scores to pass, lowering others, in at least one case lowering the score below the pass line, and allegedly boosting one person's score to make them the top candidate in their class.

Arkansas Supreme Court official arrested in bar exam score scandal - The Arkansas Leader

A former Arkansas Supreme Court official has been arrested and charged with 65 felonies in a scandal involving the alleged manipulation of bar examination scores, allowing some applicants to pass who otherwise would have failed while depriving others of points they had earned. Nancie Givens...

www.arkansasleader.com

Former Arkansas bar exam official charged with 65 felonies in alleged score tampering

A former Arkansas official responsible for overseeing professional programs has been arrested and charged with 65 felony counts.

abc6onyourside.com

 

[daftandbarmy]

AI = Another Idiot...

‘A serious failure’: CPS prosecutor cites imaginary case to court after AI search​

Exclusive: Nonexistent precedent cited in alleged child rape case adds to dozens of AI-related errors plaguing court proceedings

A senior crown prosecutor acting cited an imaginary legal precedent in an error that has sparked fresh concerns about AI hallucinations infecting the justice system.

Ravinder Dhillon, representing the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), referenced an entirely made-up case during a dispute over whether a child should be prosecuted for the rape of his younger sister, high court documents have revealed.

‘A serious failure’: CPS prosecutor cites imaginary case to court after AI search

Exclusive: Nonexistent precedent cited in alleged child rape case adds to dozens of AI-related errors plaguing court proceedings

www.theguardian.com

 

[Gordon Dundas/]

Arkansas: The state official responsible for the bar exam allegedly modified results, raising some scores to pass, lowering others, in at least one case lowering the score below the pass line, and allegedly boosting one person's score to make them the top candidate in their class.

Arkansas Supreme Court official arrested in bar exam score scandal - The Arkansas Leader

A former Arkansas Supreme Court official has been arrested and charged with 65 felonies in a scandal involving the alleged manipulation of bar examination scores, allowing some applicants to pass who otherwise would have failed while depriving others of points they had earned. Nancie Givens...

www.arkansasleader.com

Former Arkansas bar exam official charged with 65 felonies in alleged score tampering

A former Arkansas official responsible for overseeing professional programs has been arrested and charged with 65 felony counts.

abc6onyourside.com

Welcome to Arkansas where the definition of an honest politician is one, who when he leaves office at leaves office .
At the very least leaves the fixtures both plumbing and eletrical behind.

 

[dapaterson]

Presumably a military judge was once a lawyer.

How does one give a captain in possession of meth an absolute discharge?

Canadian military officer acquitted of fentanyl, cocaine trafficking

A Canadian military officer has been acquitted of trafficking fentanyl and cocaine and received an absolute discharge after he was convicted of simple possession of methamphetamine in Victoria.

www.ctvnews.ca

It appears, once again, that Military Judges overlook the first word in their title - and forget that a Military requires a separate justice system, not a civilian system with some participants in DEU.

 

[dapaterson]

I should also call out the prosecution who saw fit to say that this transgression was not worthy of a custodial sentence.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Presumably a military judge was once a lawyer.

How does one give a captain in possession of meth an absolute discharge?

Canadian military officer acquitted of fentanyl, cocaine trafficking

A Canadian military officer has been acquitted of trafficking fentanyl and cocaine and received an absolute discharge after he was convicted of simple possession of methamphetamine in Victoria.

www.ctvnews.ca

It appears, once again, that Military Judges overlook the first word in their title - and forget that a Military requires a separate justice system, not a civilian system with some participants in DEU.

I was going to go with "in Victoria" as the reason...

But maybe we need a Venn diagram overlap thread between 'Police and Lawyers Behaving Badly' threads...

"However, the defence challenged the reliability of the evidence, focusing extensively on failures in the chain of custody after the substances were seized.

Military Judge Col. Steve Strickey heard that evidence packages sent to Health Canada for analysis were temporarily lost, and others were rejected because they had not been packaged according to the agency’s requirements.

The defence argued the repeated gaps and discrepancies in the chain of custody created reasonable doubt about whether the substances analyzed were the same ones taken from the vehicle."

 

[Blackadder1916]

Presumably a military judge was once a lawyer.

How does one give a captain in possession of meth an absolute discharge?

Canadian military officer acquitted of fentanyl, cocaine trafficking

A Canadian military officer has been acquitted of trafficking fentanyl and cocaine and received an absolute discharge after he was convicted of simple possession of methamphetamine in Victoria.

www.ctvnews.ca

It appears, once again, that Military Judges overlook the first word in their title - and forget that a Military requires a separate justice system, not a civilian system with some participants in DEU.

Irony?

Colonel S.S. Strickey, CD - Canada.ca

Biography of Judge Colonel S.S. Strickey, CD

www.canada.ca

. . . he was selected for post-graduate training in 2011 towards a Master of Laws (LLM) at Duke University School of Law in the United States. Col Strickey received an LLM (magna cum laude), was a staff editor on the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law and was selected degree marshal for the LLM class. His paper, “Anglo-American Military Justice Systems and the Wave of Civilianization: Will Discipline Survive?” was published in the Cambridge Journal of Comparative and International Law in 2013.

https://scispace.com/pdf/anglo-american-military-justice-systems-and-the-wave-of-1kntodke8y.pdf

AI ASSISTED Balancing Independence and Portability: While acknowledging the necessity of a fair and impartial process, the paper defends the need for military judges and legal actors to retain a distinct military character so they understand operational realities, service offenses, and the unique pressures of the chain of command. [1]

 

[lenaitch]

AI = Another Idiot...

‘A serious failure’: CPS prosecutor cites imaginary case to court after AI search​

Exclusive: Nonexistent precedent cited in alleged child rape case adds to dozens of AI-related errors plaguing court proceedings

A senior crown prosecutor acting cited an imaginary legal precedent in an error that has sparked fresh concerns about AI hallucinations infecting the justice system.

Ravinder Dhillon, representing the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), referenced an entirely made-up case during a dispute over whether a child should be prosecuted for the rape of his younger sister, high court documents have revealed.

‘A serious failure’: CPS prosecutor cites imaginary case to court after AI search

Exclusive: Nonexistent precedent cited in alleged child rape case adds to dozens of AI-related errors plaguing court proceedings

www.theguardian.com

I was going to insert a 'laughing' emoji but felt it would detract from the appalling circumstances of the underlying case.

 

[daftandbarmy]

I was going to insert a 'laughing' emoji but felt it would detract from the appalling circumstances of the underlying case.

Good point. We could probably use one of these emojis: